Both IBM Micro and PC now deny the EN article. rmbs was down $10 yesterday due to the bogus EN article.
"A spokesman for IBM Microelectronics, the computer giant's semiconductor arm based here, said the company still plans to manufacture memory chips using the Direct Rambus DRAM interface, contrary to a report that appeared in a trade publication this week. While IBM has never been on the vanguard of Direct RDRAM development and plays a relatively minor role in the merchant DRAM market, the company said it still expects to field a Rambus part.
Additionally, a representative from IBM's PC division in Austin, Tex., said that, from a system-level perspective, the company is similarly supportive of the Rambus platform and intends to equip its high-end commercial PCs and workstations with the interface. At the low end of the market, where intense pricing pressure has prompted a number of PC vendors to explore several memory-IC options, IBM is looking at which architecture will best meet that segment's low-cost needs, the representative said." |
